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This is the final scene in Lancret’s series of paintings The Four Times of Day. By the silvery light of a spring or summer moon a group of women are bathing together in a woodland pond. One of the women standing in the pond is about to splash another who is lying on the ground, apparently testing the water with her foot. The other lady in the water covers her breast with her chemise and looks to her right as though she has heard a noise among the trees. One lady rubs her foot, apparently about to descend from the flat-bottomed boat, while another wrings out water from the hem of her shift.

Evening is in poor condition. Nicolas de Larmessin III’s print after the painting, presented to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1741, suggests that it was once much more animated and finely detailed.